Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler Review

Some peoplein the Linux programming mailing list suggested people to use this Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler to learn C/C++ language. I still maintaining my C/C++ programming skill once a while, but it's been quite long since last time engaged in big project.
You can take a look here: http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
The compiler seems to be free, but you are required to pay when requesting for the CD.
I tried to play around a bit with it, which seems a good for fast up-and-running C/C++ environment. It runs on Win32 and Win16 environment as well. Of course you might need a DOS Extender for Win16 environment in order to be able to use high memory (if you don't understand this, it's ok, just a heritage from the old x86 architecture which we might not be using anymore).

I downloaded the 8.50 version and try to make a working environment out of it.